Flavors of blackberries, brown sugar, and apple juice, in a heavy syrup body.

As part of the Las Mingas project in partnership with ASORCAFE association Pedregal de Inza de Cauca and Virmax Coffee Exporters. Over 200 members of this group bring samples of their small lots for approval. Las Mingas is an indigenous Colombian word that means ‘a group effort toward success....read more’ The projects that Olympia Coffee Roasting Co. has under taken in the Cauca Valley are exactly that: Las Mingas. Without the producers, the exporter, the importer and ourselves pulling equal weight we wouldn’t see such extraordinary coffees. These small lots are combined together into a blend we call Inza Reserva. The producers who make up Inza Reserva are paid premiums for high quality coffee improve both to improve the standard of living and its coffee production. Extreme altitude and simple yet clean processing are keys to success in this coffee growing paradise. These producers work intimately with their coffee cultivation and processing. The coffee cherry are harvested and then manually depulped with hand cranked depulpers. The beans are then fermented in concrete or tiled tanks, washed by hand and dried in solar dryers.